The Democratic Party used to be the party of blue collar America- supporting laws and policies that benefitted that segment of the U.S. population. Their leaders may still claim to be advocates for American working families, however their duplicitous actions that betray American workers and their families, while undermining national security and public safety, provide clear and incontrovertible evidence of their lies…. MICHAEL CUTLER …FRONTPAGE mag

ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER RAGES ON UNDER
THE GREAT HISPANDERER OBAMA!

Labor Day 2014

Temp labor at record levels in US

By Andre Damon
2 September 2014

The Obama administration marked Labor Day 2014 with demagogic speeches by
President Obama in Milwaukee and Vice President Joseph Biden in
Detroit—speeches that were notable mainly for the brazenness of their
dishonesty and cynicism.

Obama and Biden postured as partisans of what they referred to as the
“middle class,” even as a number of reports emerged documenting the devastating
decline in conditions for the working class under the current administration.

Low-wage males’ wages
declined by an astonishing 31.2 percent, with mid-wage male workers seeing a 16
percent drop, the study found. Workers without a high school diploma suffered a
46.3 percent fall in wages, while workers with only a high school diploma lost
32.1 percent, and those holding a bachelor’s degree lost 4 percent

AMERICA: No
Legal Need Apply!!!

But we still
get the tax bills for Mexico’s crime tidal wave and anchor baby welfare state
in our open borders!

“Meanwhile,
millions of native-born Americans, especially men, have abandoned the job
market altogether. The percentage of men aged 25 to 54 who are working or
looking for work has dropped to the lowest point in recorded history.”

Labor
statistics show that foreign-born workers account for all net gains in U.S.
employment in the past seven years, according to a group that advocates low
immigration.

The Center for
Immigration Studies issued
a report Friday that found 1.5 million fewer U.S.-born workers employed in 2014
than prior to the recession in 2007. Foreign-born employment for
both legal and illegal immigrants increased by more than 2 million workers during
the same time period.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN:

Did Obamanomics destroy the American middle
class and build the LA RAZA Mexican welfare state in its place?

Did Obamanomics destroy the American middle
class and build the LA RAZA Mexican welfare state in its place?

NAFTA
the BUSH, CLINTON(S), and OBAMA DEVICE TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS….
Is it working?

WHY BILLIONAIRES WANT OPEN BORDERS

AMNESTY: America’s death warrant

THE CONSPIRACY to DESTROY AMERICA’S
BORDERS… Obama and his Wall Street banksters

“This nation no longer is a democratic
republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who
preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the
elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out
the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Says the "Hope and Change"
Clown's TRADE AGREEMENT is simply more hopelessness for workers and no change
for their exploiters

IS AMNESTY only A DEVICE TO DEPRESS WAGES ore REALLY A
CONSPIRACY TO AMNESTY DESTROYED GOP? Or just America’s middle-class?

A
week later, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said the immigration bill was “far worse”
than ObamaCare: He described the bill as an attempt by Senate Democrats “to
establish another monolithic voting bloc” among Hispanic Americans.

“In other words, the Republican Party is finished. As their
numbers grow through immigration and welfare, democrats will become the
wholesale dominant party in America until everyone’s money runs out by all
those who milk the system, i.e., 45.2 million Americans subsisting on food
stamps and assisted house, energy, medical care and electricity—will ultimately
grow to 90 million and more. All of who work will be paying for all those who
choose to live for free forever.”

AMERICA: No
Legal Need Apply!!!

But we still
get the tax bills for Mexico’s crime tidal wave and anchor baby welfare state
in our open borders!

“Meanwhile,
millions of native-born Americans, especially men, have abandoned the job
market altogether. The percentage of men aged 25 to 54 who are working or
looking for work has dropped to the lowest point in recorded history.”

“Obama expanded his power domestically far more than any other
president in memory. His executive action on immigration is a good example of
legislating from the bureaucracy by implementing policies directly contrary to
existing law and anything Congress would be willing to do.”wILLIAM A. JACOBSON – Washington examiner

“Until lawmakers end the catch-and-release
policies of the Obama administration,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for
Immigration Studies, “any infrastructure improvements, new strategies, and
better metrics are pointless.”

'Incompetent'
and 'liar' among most frequently used words to describe the president: Pew
Research Center

“They
knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was
a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great
injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an
egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic
(perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON

for
Obama, it's all about staging the LIES and then SPINNING them in every
direction but the truth!

BARACK OBAMA, LA RAZA FASCISM and the
CULTURE of DEM CORRUPTION

They Destroyed Our
Country

“They
knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was
a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great
injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an
egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic
(perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON

“Goldman
Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America (ALL MAJOR DONORS TO BARACK OBAMA) and
every other major US bank have been implicated in a web of scandals, including
the sale of toxic mortgage securities on false pretenses, the rigging of
international interest rates and global foreign exchange markets, the
laundering of Mexican drug money, accounting fraud and lying to bank
regulators, illegally foreclosing on the homes of delinquent borrowers, credit
card fraud, illegal debt-collection practices, rigging of energy markets, and
complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi
scheme.”

One
in fourworkers earn poverty wages

OBAMAnomics:"The politicians don’t
care about the working and young people. We have billions in student loan
debts, but they don’t help us, but they give billions to the wealthy."

By Douglas Lyons
2 September 2013

One
in four n workers, and two out of three workers under 24, are paid poverty
wages according to a recent report released by the Keystone Research Center.

Last week President Obama announced a series of
executive actions that he dubbed a “Student Aid Bill of Rights.”

The initiative is partially an exercise in damage
control. It follows a series of lawsuits and scandals involving the Department
of Education (DOE). The government agency has become the target of growing
anger for protection of predatory student loan collection agencies, its bailout
of the for-profit career college chain Corinthian
and its overall profit-taking from student loans.

The
43 million Americans who owe some $1.3 trillion in student loan debt were
offered zero forgiveness. In fact, Obama does not propose even one measure to
actually lessen the ever-escalating cost of college or encroach on the
lucrative business of student loan debt. All the “rights” remain in the hands
of the government, the banks and hedge funds.

Far
from a “Bill of Rights” Obama continues to deliver a fraudulent bill of goods.
At every point, his administration has protected the financial industry in
looting an entire generation of students, preventing millions of young people
from either attaining the education they desire or making them pay through the
nose for the rest of their lives.

THE “HOPE and CHANGE” CLOWN’S LIES ON
UNEMPLOYMENT as more illegals jump our borders…………..

In
fact, The Obama Administration’s policies have been aimed at reviving US
manufacturing on the basis of a significant reduction of workers’ wages.

As
a result of these policies, the National Employment Law Project concluded in
2014 that “While the manufacturing sector has grown in recent years, wages are
lower, the jobs are increasingly temporary, and the promised benefits have yet
to be realized.”

By Nancy Hanover
23 March 2015

Last week President Obama announced a series of
executive actions that he dubbed a “Student Aid Bill of Rights.”

The initiative is partially an exercise in damage
control. It follows a series of lawsuits and scandals involving the Department
of Education (DOE). The government agency has become the target of growing
anger for protection of predatory student loan collection agencies, its bailout
of the for-profit career college chain Corinthian
and its overall profit-taking from student loans.

The
43 million Americans who owe some $1.3 trillion in student loan debt were
offered zero forgiveness. In fact, Obama does not propose even one measure to
actually lessen the ever-escalating cost of college or encroach on the
lucrative business of student loan debt. All the “rights” remain in the hands
of the government, the banks and hedge funds.

Far
from a “Bill of Rights” Obama continues to deliver a fraudulent bill of goods.
At every point, his administration has protected the financial industry in
looting an entire generation of students, preventing millions of young people
from either attaining the education they desire or making them pay through the
nose for the rest of their lives.

One
in fourworkers earn poverty wages

OBAMAnomics:

"The politicians don’t
care about the working and young people. We have billions in student loan
debts, but they don’t help us, but they give billions to the wealthy."

By Douglas Lyons
2 September 2013

One
in four n workers, and two out of three workers under 24, are paid poverty
wages according to a recent report released by the Keystone Research Center.

Sanders to unveil free college tuition bill

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is set to unveil legislation that would provide free tuition at four-year public colleges and universities on Tuesday.

The Democratic presidential candidate had called for two years of free tuition earlier this year.

The Vermont independent argued in a statement Sunday that the U.S. needs the “best-educated workforce” in order to remain competitive globally.

“That will not happen, if, every year, hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and if millions more leave school deeply in debt,” said Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.

His legislation would eliminate undergraduate tuition at public colleges and universities, the statement said, and would expand work-study programs. The measure would also “substantially lower” student debt and bring down rates on student loans, it said.

Sanders, who is running to the left of Hillary Clinton, called in February for federal and state governments to invest $18 billion per year in public higher education in order to make tuition free for two years.

Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, hasn’t discussed too many specific policy proposals yet, including on college tuition and student debt. MSNBC reported late last month that Clinton would soon unveil a college student debt plan.

“Sanders
declared that the American people faced “a more serious crisis than at any time
since the Great Depression,” and referred to the fact that the 99 percent of
all new income growth goes to the top 1 percent, and that the top 1 percent own
as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. He called this staggering inequality
“not just immoral but unsustainable.”

“As a result of the
soaring stock market, the 400 richest individuals in the United States, whose
wealth has doubled since 2009—the era of Obama. They now have a combined net
worth of $2.29 trillion, larger than the annual output of the 130 poorest
countries in the world.”

“Again and again, proponents of free trade agreements claim that this time, a new trade agreement has strong and meaningful protections,” the Warren report states. “Again and again, those protections prove unable to stop the worst abuses.”

Warren disputes Obama’s promises on trade deal

By Peter Schroeder and Vicki Needham - 05/18/15

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is taking another swing at President Obama on trade, this time arguing the president’s promises to protect workers are mostly talk.

The liberal lawmaker issued a staff report on Monday morning contending that while policymakers frequently argue that trade agreements come packed with robust worker protections, the reality does not live up to the rhetoric.

The criticism comes amid an aggressive push by the president and his Cabinet to sell congressional lawmakers, especially wary liberal Democrats, on the far-reaching importance of a sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal.

The president has been touting the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as the “most progressive trade deal in history,” while Warren argues that, despite similar claims from Democratic and Republican administrations over the years, enforcement of labor standards has been lax, driving down working conditions across the globe and dragging American workers down as well.

“Again and again, proponents of free trade agreements claim that this time, a new trade agreement has strong and meaningful protections,” the Warren report states. “Again and again, those protections prove unable to stop the worst abuses.”
The report marks the latest rally as Obama and Warren go publicly and bitingly back and forth on the issue of trade.

The president is pushing hard for Congress to pass legislation that would give the White House trade promotion authority, also known as fast-track, to negotiate global agreements with other nations, while preventing Congress from amending them after deal is struck.

But liberals like Warren, alongside labor unions, have fiercely pushed back against the president, with both sides accusing the other of playing fast and loose with the facts, or just simply being wrong on the issue.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that he expects fast-track legislation to pass the Senate this week before Congress leaves for the weeklong Memorial Day recess.

The bill’s chances in the House are murkier with the vast majority of liberal Democrats already lined up against fast-track, which would smooth passage of the TPP.

The House is aiming to take up the measure in June.

In her new report, Warren claims that the U.S. repeatedly fails to fully enforce worker protections included in previous free trade agreements, finding that before 2008, the U.S. had not accepted a single formal complaint about worker mistreatment under a trade agreement.

Since then, the Labor Department has accepted only five claims from other countries.

Warren’s office also said that the U.S. government does not have a system in place to determine if other countries are adhering to previously agreed upon worker protections, leaving that work primarily to the nations subjected to those requirements.

And those nations oftentimes fail to protect workers, Warren argued. The U.S. entered into a free trade agreement with Colombia in 2011, but since that time, 105 union activists have been killed and 1,337 others received death threats, according to Warren.

But the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) refutes those criticisms, pointing to a February report detailing the extensive efforts being made by the Obama administration to improve labor standards around the world.

The USTR report highlights the first-ever labor case filed last year against Guatemala under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement for failure to enforce labor laws such as the right to organize and bargain collectively.

The report focuses on U.S. efforts in countries such as Colombia, Jordan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Swaziland, Haiti and Burma.

“With both American values and interests at stake, the administration is committed to maintaining the effort to ensure that the benefits of trade are broadly shared and to supporting a growing and vibrant middle class around the world,” the report said.

The United States and Colombia have “worked closely on implementation of the [labor action] plan, drawing on strong engagement by stakeholders in both countries,” the report said.

“Important progress has been made but much more work remains and the United States will continue to work closely with Colombia in this process.”

The report also points out that under North American Free Trade Agreement labor provisions were part of a side agreement and weren’t a central goal.

They said TPP goes well beyond that.

The administration is seeking rules that require countries to provide workers with fundamental rights “as well as new protections for importing goods made with forced labor, adopting laws on acceptable conditions of work and upholding labor standards in export processing zones,” the report said.

“The Obama administration has insisted that labor provisions be at the core of the agreement, subject to full dispute settlement and the full range of trade sanctions.”

NAFTA
the BUSH, CLINTON(S), and OBAMA DEVICE TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS….
Is it working?

WHY BILLIONAIRES WANT OPEN BORDERS

AMNESTY: America’s death warrant

THE CONSPIRACY to DESTROY AMERICA’S
BORDERS… Obama and his Wall Street banksters

“This nation no longer is a democratic
republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who
preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the
elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out
the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”

But we still
get the tax bills for Mexico’s crime tidal wave and anchor baby welfare state
in our open borders!

“Meanwhile,
millions of native-born Americans, especially men, have abandoned the job
market altogether. The percentage of men aged 25 to 54 who are working or
looking for work has dropped to the lowest point in recorded history.”

Labor
statistics show that foreign-born workers account for all net gains in U.S.
employment in the past seven years, according to a group that advocates low
immigration.

The Center for
Immigration Studies issued
a report Friday that found 1.5 million fewer U.S.-born workers employed in 2014
than prior to the recession in 2007. Foreign-born employment for
both legal and illegal immigrants increased by more than 2 million workers
during the same time period.

THE OBAMA ASSAULT
ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS

“The
goal of the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local
governments, is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the
population to levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of
the eight-hour day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions,
health benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.”

“That her candidacy is announced without calling for any particular policies underscores the fact that the election is not about the American people deciding the course of policy, but rather the vetting of candidates to serve the interest of the financial oligarchy.”

“There is, of course, no acknowledgment that Clinton was part of an administration that oversaw and continues to oversee the greatest transfer of wealth from the bottom to “those at the top” in US history.”

Another possible explanation is that the Clintons don't believe voters will really care that much. The renting of the Lincoln Bedroom to people who gave $5.4 million to the DemocraticNational Committee in 1995 and 1996 did no lasting damage to Bill's approval ratings. Neither did the 1996 fundraising scandal involving illegal foreign donations, which the Los Angeles Times reported on just before the president easily won a second term.

HILLARY CLINTON: GLOBAL LOOTER LIKE A THIRD-WORLD DICTATOR IN THE MAKING!

“This decision wasn’t made because of the Clinton Foundation’s remarkably lucrative sideline as a uranium superstore for Russian strongmen, but because its finances are opaque and dishonest, and because such a tiny amount of the money it rakes in actually goes to charitable endeavors. “The Clinton family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid,” notes the New York Post. “The group spent the bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, WITH THE FATTEST PAYOUTS GOING TO FAMILY FRIENDS.”

Hillary Clinton bellies with the 9-11 invading Saudi dictatorship like Obama. She’s collected her bribes for pushing the Bush-Saudi wars against Iraq and Obama smells the dirty Saudis loot coming for his presidential libaray!

“Schweizer said he had found “a pattern of behavior…the proof is, you look at a series of actions in which money flows to the Clintons, either through speaking fees or Clinton Foundation donors.”

Another possible explanation is that the Clintons don't believe voters will really care that much. The renting of the Lincoln Bedroom to people who gave $5.4 million to the DemocraticNational Committee in 1995 and 1996 did no lasting damage to Bill's approval ratings. Neither did the 1996 fundraising scandal involving illegal foreign donations, which the Los Angeles Times reported on just before the president easily won a second term.

The stunning revelation is just one of many in the new book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.

THE GLOBAL CRIME WAVE of HILLARY and BILLARY… the Bonnie and Clyde of Corrupt Democrat Politics – The bankster-funded politics for the 1% , open borders, no LEGAL need apply and amnesty for 40 million looting Mexicans.

Another possible explanation is that the Clintons don't believe voters will really care that much. The renting of the Lincoln Bedroom to people who gave $5.4 million to the DemocraticNational Committee in 1995 and 1996 did no lasting damage to Bill's approval ratings. Neither did the 1996 fundraising scandal involving illegal foreign donations, which the Los Angeles Times reported on just before the president easily won a second term.

House of the Stacked Deck of Cards

The privilege of being Hillary Clinton

Noemie Emery

May 25, 2015, Vol. 20, No. 35

"The deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,” Hillary Clinton has warned us, and she ought to know. Having been “at the top,” or close enough to it, since 1976, when her husband was elected attorney general of Arkansas at age 30—not the biggest job ever, but one with a whole lot of power to play with—she has leveraged every ounce that it held to bring to them ever and ever more money and power, until at this moment, 14 years after leaving the White House, she and Bill sit on a mile-high mountain of both. Their wealth is immense and their power unlimited, at least in their party. The very few viable national candidates left after the two midterm wipeouts that decimated Democratic ranks in the reign of Obama are so afraid to risk the Clintons’ wrath that she is cruising unopposed to the nomination for the first time since no one knows when. How did two penniless kids living in roughly 1,000 square feet in Fayetteville, Arkansas, reach such heights? Let us look back and see.

Our story begins as boy wonder Bill Clinton wins his first election and moves with bride Hillary to the state capital and into a new way of life. Biographers Sally Bedell Smith (For Love of Politics) and Carl Bernstein (A Woman in Charge) seem to agree it was then and there that three things converged: For the first time, Bill was in a position to do things for people; the state was in the middle of a get-rich-quick boomlet; and Hillary, thinking now about starting a family, realized that, given Bill’s disposition and fairly low salary, the family fortunes would be in her hands.

“It was Hillary who decided she wanted to be financially secure, and took the steps to accomplish that,” family friend Betsey Wright told Bernstein. “She had come a long way from her rejection of ‘our prevailing acquisitive corporate life’ that she condemned in her Wellesley commencement address.” Rationalizing shady deals apparently came naturally in “an easy atmosphere of conflicts of interest” in which “everyone does it” was the rule.

“It was a culture in which the moral architecture was weak, and in which everyone assumed that ‘fixing’ was a requirement for getting things done,” as Smith tells us.

The Clintons’ connections helped them enrich themselves in the go-go 1980s, a period they were to denounce as the “greed decade.” . . . In that atmosphere, Bill and Hillary developed a sense of entitlement, an expectation that others would take care of them. They became accustomed to borrowing from banks operated by political friends and accepting favors from individuals and corporations, such as the free use of private airplanes.

By the same sort of happy coincidence that saw a Chicago hospital create a $300,000-per-year job for Michelle Obama when her husband emerged as a comer, Little Rock’s venerable Rose Law Firm hired Hillary Clinton in 1976 after Bill was elected attorney general and made her its first female partner when he became governor. This was the start of a cascade of good tidings that would quickly come her way. On top of her $110,000 Rose salary, Hillary cleared $64,000 yearly for sitting on corporate boards, including those of Wal-Mart and TCBY Enterprises, whose chairman explained her presence on the board as “making sure he was in good grace with the people in power.” The favor of other people with similar motives enabled the couple to live very well. According to Smith, Hillary “put $2,104 into a cellular-phone franchise operated by a policy adviser to the governor and walked away with a profit of $46,000.” But her most notorious coup was her $1,000 investment in cattle futures that in less than a year returned an astounding hundred-fold profit of $100,000, this windfall coming just as Bill was first taking office as governor in 1979.

Forced to try to explain this in 1994, when her past was coming under increased scrutiny, Hillary at first said she had done the trading herself, after her father had taught her to read the stock pages. But she eventually admitted that most of her trades had been made by Jim Blair, a counsel to Tyson Foods, the Arkansas-based conglomerate, and a hot-shot commodities trader, with the assistance of local broker and former Tyson executive Robert (Red) Bone, who seemed to have shielded her from damaging margin calls and thrown other favors her way.

The exceptional profits didn’t pass anyone’s smell test. The New York Times, which broke the commodities-trading story, concluded that “at every turn of their financial life . . . [the Clintons] were receiving financial favors from individuals who had something to gain from having friends in high places” and had trouble seeing the difference between the public interest and their own. But money wasn’t the only thing the Clintons tried to get the stacked deck to yield them. Sometimes it was power, too.

Many times before, people have run for public office from positions of privilege, having been rich and/or connected, having been famous as athletes or actors, as millionaires funding themselves, or as celebrities whose names were already on everyone’s lips. But no one before Hillary had launched their political career from the White House as first lady, able to enlist the prestige, perks, and glitz that surround that position. From the moment she decided to run for the Senate (late 1998, by most estimations) she drew attention and money away from the sitting vice president, whose presidential campaign was relatively neglected by a husband who, probably out of guilt and loyalty justly mingled with gratitude, turned all his attention her way.

“Hillary continued to vie with Gore for attention and money and to benefit enormously from Bill’s advice as well from her First Lady perch, while Gore essentially left the White House,” Smith tells us, noting that Bill showered his wife with praise, attention, and fundraising efforts, showcasing her in 1999 at 20 feel-good events at the executive mansion, featuring children, the elderly, and Medal of Freedom Award winners, compared to just one for Gore. Hitting up rich donors who would normally have given heavily to the vice president, she began competing with Gore for contributions, sometimes even making her personal pitches for money at his fundraising events. Talking to Hillary “all the time, every day,” Bill gave her advice on how to talk about issues, made plugs for her while campaigning for others, extravagantly talked up her virtues and talents, and urged people at fundraisers for other Democrats to also send something to Hillary. (“A lot of you have given to Hillary,” he would say. “If you haven’t, I hope you will.”)

The Democratic convention in 2000 at which Gore was nominated also turned into an extravaganza for Hillary, with a packed schedule of events before Gore arrived, “siphoning off Democratic money and further angering” Gore. Even her husband’s impeachment seemed to work for Hillary and against the vice president, casting her as the brave little woman seeking a new start in life after a great disappointment, while Gore had the more delicate job of trying to run on the Bill Clinton record while disassociating himself from the president’s sins. Hillary was given an 18-minute speech at the convention, and after that her campaign against a hapless Rick Lazio was practically an afterthought. On election night the Clintons watched from their suite in New York as Hillary won by 12 points while Gore, declared the winner at 8 p.m., was then declared the loser at 2 a.m., and at dawn headed into the Florida recount, which he would lose over a month later by a few hundred votes. If the White House epitomizes what it means to be “at the top,” never had the cards been stacked more in favor of anyone than they were for Hillary Clinton when she had a Senate seat in a state that she never had lived in more or less placed in her hands.

With an ex-president licensed to coin money and a former first lady in the Senate planning her own eventual run for president, the Clintons were in a unique position to leverage their power—past (Bill), present, and future (Hillary). Former presidents had in various ways cashed in before, but by that time they were no longer able to do people very meaningful favors. A donation to Bill, on the other hand, could mean favors from Hillary, in the job she was holding (senator, then secretary of state), and even as president sometime down the line. As the New York Times has noted, four days after Hillary was mentioned to head Barack Obama’s State Department, TD Bank (Canada’s largest) hired Bill to give speeches for a fee of $1.8 million. It must have been just a coincidence, like all the others she had enjoyed since their Little Rock days, that Secretary of State Clinton would be ideally placed to push for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, in which the bank held a large block of shares.

As the New York Post’s Kyle Smith noted, in a piece on Peter Schweizer’s new book Clinton Cash,“Eleven of the 13 highest-paid speeches [Bill] ever gave took place while . . . Hillary headed the State Department.” Other ex-presidents had nostalgia to sell, which quickly lost value. Bill had “access to a family member who was secretary of state and perhaps a future president. That’s why his fees actually went up over time, and not down.” The Clinton machine is best explained as a wondrous contraption designed to funnel cash to Bill Clinton, with a million or two tossed now and then in the way of the needy, along with a supply of fascinating new friends, ready to fly him to beautiful islands, in the pursuit of women and song.

And what did Hillary hope to get from all this, beyond a share in the family fortunes? Much the same thing that she got when she lived in the White House as first lady during the years that she ran for the Senate, namely a series of glamorous feel-good occasions meant to showcase her as a species of royalty, altruistic, benevolent, and above it all. As Kenneth Vogel explained in Politico, this summer was supposed to be a four-month display of Hillary mania, with “a splashy Clinton Global Initiative conference in Marrakesh . . . followed by a lavish reception and conference in Athens in June, and . . . a September extravaganza in Manhattan, featuring an appearance by Elton John.” Alas, the release of Schweizer’s Clinton Cash and related reports in the New York Times and the Washington Post caused the Athens event to be canceled, with the family foundation “scrambling to address concerns about its budgeting, fundraising, and donor vetting, while being buffeted by a raging political storm.”

That storm may have been augmented by the revelation last summer that Chelsea Clinton, hired by NBC News along with Jenna Bush Hager as a part-time contributor, had not only not distinguished herself as a TV reporter, but had pulled down a yearly salary of $600,000 while having done practically nothing. It came to something over $26,000 for every minute she had been on the air. “Chelsea Clinton Leaving Her Unbelievably Cushy Fake Job at NBC” ran the New York headline. The magazine added that “she will no longer pretend to be a reporter,” calling her “one of the most boring people of her era” and her salary “insane.” A tipster told the New York Post that the disclosure (by Politico) of Chelsea’s salary had been “catastrophic for NBC, because not one of the other correspondents, not even Jenna Bush Hager, is in on that sort of money.” The NBC insider added that George W. Bush’s daughter—who is “extremely well-liked on Today, and [who] scored a sit-down with President Obama and reported on the Sochi Olympics—is rumored to be among those who expressed their dismay at Chelsea’s huge salary for apparently very little work.” (Laura Bush, of course, isn’t running for president and has no future favors to give to the network.) Nonetheless, seemingly heedless of her own family’s fortunes, Hillary continues to rail against income disparity as a crisis, and the unfair advantages given the already powerful as a national shame and a sin.

Nobody knows about stacked decks better than Hillary Clinton, who found the deck stacked slightly in her favor 40 years ago and has spent her whole political life stacking it further, to the benefit of herself and her husband and their daughter and Hillary’s brothers, all of whom have managed to make out like bandits, the latter two with no talents to speak of besides being related to her. The Democrats may want to run on inequality, but they should look for some other candidate to do it, and not someone who has made inequality, when it heavily tilts in her direction, her singular calling and life’s achievement.

Noemie Emery is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a columnist for the Washington Examiner.

YOU THOUGHT OBAMA INVITED OBAMANOMICS and

started the assault on the American middle-class?

NOPE!

“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the world.”

Another possible explanation is that the Clintons don't believe voters will really care that much. The renting of the Lincoln Bedroom to people who gave $5.4 million to the Democratic National Committee in 1995 and 1996 did no lasting damage to Bill's approval ratings. Neither did the 1996 fundraising scandal involving illegal foreign donations, which the Los Angeles Times reported on just before the president easily won a second term.

THE UNLEASHING OF WALL STREET’S BIGGEST MONSTERS and the ASSAULT ONtheAMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASSSTARTED WITH BILL CLINTON.

By the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich, including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the world.

APPARENTLY MEXICO'S LOOTING IN OUR OPEN BORDERS IS NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR LA RAZA HILLARY!Obama expanded his power domestically far more than any other president in memory. His executive action on immigration is a good example of legislating from the bureaucracy by implementing policies directly contrary to existing law and anything Congress would be willing to do.

The server scandal is a metaphor for the old Hillary — opaque, controlling, paranoid, ruthless and power-hungry. It's proof that she hasn't changed.

Now we have Candidate Clinton promising even more aggressive executive immigration amnesty than Obama. Not only has Hillary vowed to defend Obama's executive immigration actions, she said "if Congress continues to refuse to act, as president I would do everything possible under the law to go even further." She added, "That is just the beginning …"

Obama expanded his power domestically far more than any other president in memory. His executive action on immigration is a good example of legislating from the bureaucracy by implementing policies directly contrary to existing law and anything Congress would be willing to do.

The server scandal is a metaphor for the old Hillary — opaque, controlling, paranoid, ruthless and power-hungry. It's proof that she hasn't changed.

Now we have Candidate Clinton promising even more aggressive executive immigration amnesty than Obama. Not only has Hillary vowed to defend Obama's executive immigration actions, she said "if Congress continues to refuse to act, as president I would do everything possible under the law to go even further." She added, "That is just the beginning …"WILLIAM A. JACOBSON – Washington Examiner